A South Asian film festival put on by indiememe kicks off Thursday night in Austin with a series of short films. Thirty-seven films from 11 countries will be played over the course of the festival this weekend and next. | sangitamenon
"Testimony of Ana," a documentary about a woman in rural India who is accused of using witchcraft, will be shown at the Indie Meme Film Festival on Sunday.
So Bhanot and fellow Indie Meme cofounder Tripti Bhatnagar started inviting the community to single film screenings in Austin and Dallas. Bhanot expected a few dozen people to attend. “I want the audience to really hear what she has to say and to feel her rage, to feel her anger,” Mudigonda said. “I want the audience to listen to her testimony and really acknowledge that this is happening in the 21st
“At that time, when I saw the reactions of these people and them coming and talking to me later about the film I made, I think that’s when it really kind of permanently registered that this is the path I have to take," he said. The team putting on the festival scrambled to maintain the interactive component when they had to shift to a virtual format at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Bhanot said they had almost 1,500 online attendees from across the country because people were hungry for interaction after a month of isolation. But online attendance dipped last year.
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